iOS 5 Bug: Badges on Messaging app

We have stumbled upon a bug in iOS 5 running on the iPhone 4, in regards to the badges showing up on the Messages App.

You can reproduce this bug yourself.

In Settings>Notifications>Messages, set it to:

Notification Center: On

Show: 5 Recent Items

Alert Style: Alerts

Badge App Icon: On

Show Preview: On

Repeat Alert: Never

View In Lock Screen: On

Now, go to your home screen and have somebody text message you a few times in a row. When each text message comes up as an alert dialog box, click on CLOSE.

So far, so good.

However, when you go to look at your Messages App icon, there are *NO* badges to let you know that you just received 2 or 3 text messages. Furthermore, none of those messages made it into your Notification Center either.

In iOS 4, if you clicked "Close" on a Message Alert, you would still be reminded of the fact that you have text messages waiting, because the badge icon would show you how many messages have come in since the last time you launched the Messages app.

This bug is causing us to forget about all sorts of incoming text messages because we don't have a badge reminder NOR a notification center reminder. The badge icon and the notification center reminders should really ONLY DISAPPEAR once we launch the Messages app.

Thanks,

Scott